*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1014229 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1014229
After coordination with "upstream", it is in fact a translation bug.
The French translation is misleading and tends to make you believe that
there will really be an update. As matter of fact the feature is only
informative and shows you new versions.
We are trying to find a better French translation.
Apart from that, the remaining issue is a "privacy issue" when you ask
for this information.
But this was already described earlier on the ticket 1014229.
The information leaked is "only" your IP address. Apart from that the
request is super clean. Thus you would leak much more information
obtaining the same information with a browser (user agent, etc...), the
only problem, described is #1014229 is that the check is done without
the user having explicitly opted in.
A little bit the same lengthy discussion as the one about the search in
the dash!
I do personally consider that the feature should be OFF by default, and
the user would have to OPT-IN if he wants the function.
As for this bug, apart from finding a better French translation, I'll mark it
as a duplicate of 1014229, only issue remaining.
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1014229
mmg configuration "check for new versions online" defaults to ON (should be
OFF)
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